7th Annual Fall Symposium:
Friday 24 October 2014
New Horizons in Victorian Studies
Stong Master’s Dining Room

Introductions, 10 am – 10.15 am
Host: Tina Choi
Morning session, 10.15 am – 11.45 am
Moderator: Sonja Pushchak

Katharine Anderson (Humanities & STS): “Voyages; or, Disraeli and a Colonial Experiment with Satires of Knowledge”

Jonathan Vandor (English): “From Riches to Résumés: Justifying Social Mobility in Victorian Realist Novels.”

Bernard Lightman (Humanities & STS) and James Elwick (STS): “The John Tyndall Correspondence Project: Publishing the Letters of an Eminent Victorian Scientist”

Lunch (provided)

Afternoon session, 1.15 – 2.45 pm
Moderator: Alison Halsall

David Latham (English): “Pater Patter: Editing The Collected Works of Walter Pater”

Marlis Schweitzer (Theatre Studies): “Tom Thumb’s Table: Performances of Scale.”

Tanya Pikula (English): “Deviance on the Peripheries: Suburbia and Masculinity in Victorian Gothic-Detective Stories”